What vandals use only grey paint to cover graffiti?

City workers.

This, I presume, is on the list of things for why we can't have nice things.

I'll have to dig up the picture I took of a graffiti wall out this way, it changes all the time, the time I took a picture it had an emo vampire panda. I also got a pic of the Alberta Wild Rose Party's leader, bus tits.

 
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Legal graffiti, happens over a 4 day period every year.

Maybe the city hired someone to do it. Now the artist has to buy another license. Free revenue.

Help out here fellow Farkers:

A) Vandalism is OK if I don't like it.
B) Vandalism is OK if me and my friends don't like it
C) Vandalism is OK if it's on public property
D) Both B and C
E) All of the above 
F) I was not raised in a barn and don't think living in society means watching the world burn

I'm going to have to agree with the several posters that stated the obvious:

It's a skatepark. The mural was all bright and flowery and girly. I expected to see a pony popping out of it somewhere. Skaters aren't typically into pink and pastels. I'm sure they hated it. It was the wrong place for it. The skaters probably banded together to eliminate it.

Ok reiterating here, but it's a skate park. Perhaps less than 24 hours is mildly surprising, but exactly how long did she expect this to remain intact? Also, it looks like something I could do and that's not bragging. In conclusion, skaters aren't generally that big a fan of Lisa Frank inspired imagery.

The picture is clearly still stored, it's just that a buffer overflow damaged the header.

I don't think that the artist researched the skate culture. Her mural looks like something out of a 13 year old girls middle school notebook.

I do like that Buff buffed the wall and tagged it with his/her name. That gave me a chuckle.

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having viewed the before and after....
a) that was a planned attack
b) hope it wasn't like this summer's lesbian attack which turned out to be self-perpetrated for the attention

And no after pic in TFA. WTF is wrong with these "reporters" these days.

Sim Tree: I wonder if some city employee thought the mural was vandalism and had it painted over? It wouldn't be the first time.

Ah, someone painted over the eyesore with gray paint.

If it's a skate park you don't want patterns and perspective distorting painting to screw up your perception.

surfren: I'm sorry - was the photo in the article the before or the after?

Her mural sucked.

I figured they painted over it with grafitti, which would likely be an enhancement, but gray paint? That's just being rotten.

indarwinsshadow: The funny part, is the turds that did this will one day age. And realize that it takes time and effort to gather the things we enjoy in life. Money spent, time put in, years go by. And when that day comes, some young arsehole will come along and wreck whatever they most cherish. Just. Because.

I would have agreed with you....until I looked at the mural....

It *really* isn't appropriate for a skate park. Stereotypical or not, the target demographic of skaters are not going to appreciate cartoonish birds and rainbow colors. It doesn't jive with skater culture. And this lady isn't a skater. She doesn't come to the park. Legally/technically it's a public park or whatever - but in the eyes of the kids that use it, that hang out there, that skate - they probably feel like she has no business covering the park with stuff I'd expect to see in a children's day care.

This is the park before.

Seems fine to me.

That mural was total garbage. That girl doesn't know how to draw, much less paint. There aren't any people who use that area of the park (skaters) that could possibly identify with that lame, untalented bullshiat. This is not a "troll". These are just the painful facts.

re grey wall: Papineau bridge in Montreal is constantly graffiti'd.
Old graffiti is painted over with grey paint using rollers by the graffiti artists themselves, who then proceed to lay down new graffiti. Lather rinse repeat.
Some of it is not great:

Other bits are nicer:



Another view:

Not sure what my point is. Some nice stuff, though.

neenerist: mongbiohazard: Her mural sucked. And it was pretty rainbowlame for a skatepark too.

And nowhere in the article does it mention the skate park users were consulted. Sounds like they just took the space back from a group trying to co-opting it.


Skating over that multicolored monstrosity would have given me vertigo. The people that painted over it probably did it to keep kids from falling down and busting their heads open. Skating by it must have had a kaleidoscope effect on you. And if she honestly expected the locals to respect it, just about anyone with any sense would have explained the folly of such thought. She choose her canvas poorly.

 

We need more graffiti with a MESSAGE

sounds like someone who did not approve of the mural during the entire process painted over it. Probably someone condemning it having been painted over.

Seriously was their no dissent by the people use the skate park during the long process of getting approval?

Has anyone mentioned how this was probably some hard ass thinking he was covering up some graffiti? The tag came later.

I was hoping to come in and rag on certain people who complain that vandalism is "street art" and should NEVER BE PAINTED OVER, even if it paints over legitimate art.

Then I saw the mural. Ick.


//I generally like great street art, but for every masterpiece there are 100 other talentless hack just ruining local businesses.

It's high time the legatus did something about the Vandal problem, just like the Goths.

Girion47: Legal graffiti, happens over a 4 day period every year.

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Nice. A neighbor had a bit of a problem with his wall (a rather large wall he kept painting it white) to be tagged over and over again. He got so tired that he painted it again, only this time he stenciled in black bold letters "NO GRAFFITI PLEASE". Next morning, there was a tag below saying "Sorry :C".

The mural sucks.
The artist sucks.

I doubt she consulted skate park regulars on what they wanted to see. They want to see graffiti art, not some lame ass, middle school Barney the purple dinosaur shiat.

I hope she does another one, and it gets "fixed" as well. I'm too lazy to follow this story to see what else happens, but maybe it will pop up on here one of these days.

Billy Bathsalt: I figured they painted over it with grafitti, which would likely be an enhancement, but gray paint? That's just being rotten.

I'm guessing either a grumpy old local or someone who has a direct vendetta with the artist. Taggers are assholes, but painting the entire thing grey is way too much work for the average vandal jackass.

/or the artist decided they needed some free publicity for a meh mural

a21ozcoldcup: I wouldn't be caught in that skatepark. That is a mural? It looks like she popped some acid and ran back and forth with rainbow spraypaint and tada .. we have art.

Wait, you mean that's not how art is supposed to work?

CSB:
When I was in undergrad, I wrote for the campus paper. I published a column shiatting all over the craptacular offerings of the Fine Arts students, including one display of clay blobs leading up to a collection of broken picture frames stuffed in a clay base. Needless to say, I wasn't very popular over that side of campus (not that anybody knew who I was). About a year after that I briefly dated a Fine Arts student who told me that people put up copies of my column and told everyone else to make a point of not liking me, but that she agreed with what I'd written. The problem with legitimising crap is that it makes it harder to the real artists (the ones who can draw a face looks like an actual face) to be taken seriously.
/CSB

ms_lara_croft: Fark Me To Tears: ms_lara_croft: 1) Paint mural
2) Vandals destroy mural by painting over it
3) Paint another mural?

4) Hidden security cameras watch mural
5) Vandals start to destroy mural by painting over it
6) Six cop cars pull up, along with two local TV news vans
7) Vandals are arrested and handcuffed while standing in front of glaring lights, being interviewed by a TV news reporter and the artist who painted the mural
8) Squirrel jail
9) Justice!

10) Artist and police interviewed on local news
11) Artist writes book
12) Artist appears on "The View" and "Good Morning America"
13) Profit!

14) Artist quietly hands over their cut of the money to the vandals.

Somewhere in that town, she covered someone else's tag to paint her own schtick. This is the follow-up."Buff", if that's your REAL name, had better lay off the tags for a bit. In fact, all ya'll better back up. With the mayor siding with the 'artist', the cops are gonna hit up anyone with so much as a Sharpie.

Hey, if can't really create anything, just wipe your ass with anything handy and say it's edgy.

Well, dont really care for the mural as it was myself, but kudos to her for trying to bring some art to the public. She really should have expected it in a skate park though.

She does say ITFA that she was trying to get the city to allow other graffiti in the park, which I've seen some other locales do and is usually a pretty cool thing.

Mob mentality usually has a Darwinian effect on the art when that happens - really interesting and talented stuff survives since even really dickish taggers will usually leave it alone, if for no other reason that they dont want their scrawny butts beaten black and blue by the rest of the skaters who like the art and will probably have a good idea of who messed it up.

Times like these we should all remember "Chaka" the most prolific west-coast tagger of the 80's. He had the chutzpa to hit up the elevator door of the courthouse on his way to sentencing. Epic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ramos

Well, it was a butt ugly mural. Someone may have just looked at it and went all "ah hell no!"

goodbomb: surfren: I'm sorry - was the photo in the article the before or the after?

exactly. maybe they just thought it sucked.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe it wasn't a vandal as much as an art critic.

"You call that perspective? You learn this in Art 101."

ExperianScaresCthulhu: Sim Tree: I wonder if some city employee thought the mural was vandalism and had it painted over? It wouldn't be the first time.

First thing I thought of. Some city worker or railyard employee. Someone else came by and tagged the wall.

Also possible that she painted over some tags and the 'artists' decided to show her how it felt to have her hard work painted over.

More than likely someone was just trolling

Meh. The visigoths would have trashed it in half the time.

I'm impressed that she was able to get through the bureaucratic red tape. 2 years; that kids more dedication than most "artists" have these days.

Romney did it.

Fark Me To Tears: ms_lara_croft: 1) Paint mural
2) Vandals destroy mural by painting over it
3) Paint another mural?

4) Hidden security cameras watch mural
5) Vandals start to destroy mural by painting over it
6) Six cop cars pull up, along with two local TV news vans
7) Vandals are arrested and handcuffed while standing in front of glaring lights, being interviewed by a TV news reporter and the artist who painted the mural
8) Squirrel jail
7) Vandals are repeatedly tazed.
8) Justice!

Lukeonia1: Here's a local news clip showing the vandalized mural.

Someone probably thought they were being hilarious:

Gray wall → spray paint → colorful wall.
Colorful wall → spray paint → gray wall! HA!!

Which could be an entirely different artistic interpretation. Ashes -> Ashes, or some other really deep meaning that the "vandals" wanted to convey. The fragility of life. We're here one minute and gone the next.

Assholes.

daywin: What teen skaterpunk would want to associate with that mural?

Probably just about all of them